the clinical audit and improvement podcast

For episode 18 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Isabel Dighero and Molly Nichols discuss the management of suspected ureteric colic in A&E, including how it's audited and how improvements might be made.This episode's guests:Isabel Dighero is a core surgical trainee from Epsom and St Helier.Molly Nichols is a core surgical trainee from Barts Heath. 

For episode 17 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Vicky Barsby, Cassandra Dye, and Neil Jones discuss the processes they went through in order to improve patient care in urgent treatment centres at Derbyshire Community Health Services.This episode's guests:Vicky Barsby is an Improvement, Innovation and Effectiveness Facilitator at Derbyshire Community Health Services. She started her NHS career as the IT clinical systems training team lead and caught the bug for QI and audit when she undertook some service improvement projects. Vicky continues to support staff in her current role so they can go on supporting patients. Cassandra Dye is a data analyst and QSIR practitioner at Derbyshire Community Health Services who started in the NHS as an admin apprentice back in 2010. After an organisational restructure, Cassandra became a Quality Compliance officer before beginning training for her current role. She’s a blackbelt in lean six sigma and works within the Improvement, Innovation, and Effectiveness Team. Neil Jones is the Service Lead for the North Urgent Treatment Centres at Derbyshire Community Health Services. He has 27 years’ experience as a qualified nurse within urgent & emergency care, including Out-of-Hours. Neil is also a Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support Provider.

For episode 16 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Madeeha Rahim-Rasool and Angela Ward join Suzanne Henderson to discuss data triangulation and the benefits it can have as well as the challenges involved.This episode's guests:Madeeha Rahim-Rasool is the Deputy Head of Clinical Effectiveness at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. She has worked in both Acute and Mental Health NHS trusts, and her experience in Clinical Effectiveness has required her to oversee Trust-wide Clinical Audit planners, support senior directors with strategic work, and support the review of NICE guidelines.Angela Ward is a Clinical Audit and NICE lead at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. She’s worked in both Acute and Community NHS Trusts and has helped engage staff with using clinical audit for quality improvement. She’s coordinated local audit plans, managed national project participation, promoted audit for accreditation and managed NICE compliance evidence.Suzanne Henderson is the Programme Manager for AMaT. She was previously the project manager in the Clinical Audit and Effectiveness team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust. Suzanne had sixteen years' Clinical Audit experience before joining AMaT in 2020 and is a member of the Q Community.

For episode 14 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Mr Oluseyi Harold Ogunfusika, and Mr Tagelsir Saeed look at how clinical audit has influenced the diagnosis of prostate cancer.This episode's guests:Mr Oluseyi Harold Ogunfusika of Kettering General Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust received his surgical training at Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria before relocating to the United Kingdom. He's a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and has presented multiple urology audits and quality improvement projects both nationally and internationally.Mr Tagelsir Saeed graduated December 2005 from Omdurman Islamic university and moved to the UK in 2014. He now works as a urology registrar for Kettering General Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

For episode 13 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Mr Ahmed Arnob, Mr Mohammed Rahman, and Mr Mahabub Hassan discuss responses to Haematuria.This episode's guests:Mr Ahmed Arnob is a Urologist at Kettering General Hospital who is due to start Specialty Training from October 2023 and has designed, implemented and carried out multiple quality improvement initiatives as well as presenting multiple audits and QIPs in Local, National and International settings.Mr Mohammad Rahman is a Urology Registrar working in West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Mohammad has also been involved in multiple audit and quality improvement projects and is well used to presenting those at his Trust.Mr Mahabub Hassan is a Urologist Registrar at St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and has a great deal of experience in quality improvement projects.

For episode 12 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Georgina Coote and Madalina Bleau discuss benchmarking and NICE guidelines.This episode's guests:Madalina Bleau is a Registered Nurse and the NICE Implementation Manager at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. Maddie began her journey in 2009 at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila in Romania before accepting a job in the Patient Progression Unit at Furness General Hospital. In January 2022 she became the NICE Northwest Chair and NICE Implementation Manager.Georgina Coote is the Clinical Audit and Effectiveness Coordinator at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. Georgie began her clinical audit career in 2018 and launched the first Trust Clinical Audit Awareness Week in 2021. She developed a clinical audit training programme in 2022 helped align audit and quality improvement processes through clinician involvement as well as participating in the national design and development of the new NHS Futures site.

For episode 11 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Heather Darlow, Tracy Ruthven and Stephen Ashmore discuss PSIRF and its impact on Clinical Audit.This episode's guests:Heather Darlow is Head of Clinical Quality and Governance and Trustwide Lead for Quality Improvement at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. She has over 28 years of experience in the NHS, with the last 12 years at LPT where she supports community and mental health services.Tracy Ruthven is co-director of the Clinical Audit Support Centre. Tracy has almost 30 years' experience in clinical audit and improvement within the NHS. She speaks at national conferences, is widely published, and helped to develop the nationally recognised ‘Clinical Audit Teaching Toolkit’. Stephen Ashmore is co-director of the Clinical Audit Support Centre. Stephen worked in the NHS for ten years and holds a range of qualifications in clinical audit and quality improvement. He has been a member of several high-profile national groups and has chaired Patient Participation Groups. 

For episode 10 of the Clinical Audit and Improvement Podcast, Diane Lynch and Zoe Lowe discuss how roles within clinical audit have changed over the years.This episode's guests:Diane Lynch is the Head of Clinical Effectiveness at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. She began her career in 1998 as a junior, collecting notes in her first clinical audit department. She aims to make the department she works in as productive as possible, which involves a passion for moving clinical audit from paper-based to digital systems.Zoe Lowe is the the Deputy Head of Clinical Effectiveness at Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust. She has been heavily involved in the redesign of the governance processes around Clinical Audit, NICE, and NCEPOD and has spoken at NQICAN meetings regarding improvements which include the introduction of a locally developed assurance assessment.